With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where eath tooth-point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1918 We're not so old in the Army List, But we're not so young at our trade, For we had ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
The dead child lay in the shroud, And the widow watched beside; And her mother slept, and the Channel swept ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
I have been given my charge to keep-- Well have I kept the same! Playing with strife for the most ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man's Life. Called for wine, and threw -- alas! ...
"Behold there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor." I Samuel, xxviii. 7. The road to En-dor ...
1918 This is the State above the Law. The State exists for the State alone." [This is a gland at ...
Until thy feet have trod the Road Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the Load Break ...
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for ...
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